HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2798, 11 August 1903, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

August 6. The Shipping and Seamen' Bill was bronght down by Governor's rnesaaga and read a first time.

Mr Field moved the second reading of the Dramatic Copyright Bill, which, he explained, was designed to prevent thepirat ing of dramatic plays, whioh was carried on to a large extent in New Zealand at the present time. The second reading was carried

Mr Bnume moved the seoond reading of the Law Practitioners Act Amendment Bill, wbioh proviire that every person who has been admitted or who shall be entitled to be admitted as a eolloitor of the Supreme Court shall be entitled to be admitted US ft \)Wm

t"rof the BAin;' oourt oa certain conditions, 'ho t'ebate on ihe Bill was delayed by the dinner arlj lururnent. Ii the tvpning a heated dibxte emusd ou Kir Williiim Steward's KlecMve Exeauiivo Bill of which tbe second rending wae nega , tived by 36 to 21. AtratJST 7. The following Bil's were iatroduood and read a first time : —Pnuk*w* Native Rβ , nerve (Hnn, J, Carroll), Testators Family Maiiitt-uanue Amendment (Hon. J. Carroll), Borough of Whangarei Empowering (Mr Maader) and Stephen Cole Moule Trustees Empowering (Mr Witty). A return showing that the cost of the Miikohine Viaduct on the North Island Main Trunk line was £72,000 caused a great deal of adverse criticism, to which Sir Joseph Ward replied. The Medical Practitioners Rgiatration Bill was committed, and with several amend menta passed through Committee. The Inebriates lusoiiutiou Act, Amend' tnetitßill, Wireless Telegraphy Bill, First, Offenders Probation Act Amei.dment Bill and the Dairy Industry Act Amendment; Bill were considered in Committee and only two small amendments nude.